{"id":2050,"date":"2019-01-08T03:25:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T03:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=2050"},"modified":"2025-10-17T17:48:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:48:50","slug":"an-ellis-island-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=2050","title":{"rendered":"An Ellis Island Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_0013-e1547046970316-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2060\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_0013-e1547046970316-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_0013-e1547046970316-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_0013-e1547046970316-600x800.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In this story, which was inspired by the author&#8217;s grandmother own journey, a Polish family flees war and hunger around the turn of the last century.  They are immigrating to the United States to join the husband\/father who went first.  Nearly all of their possessions (which are already vanishing few by current standards) must be left behind.  Their journey via foot and steerage-class is difficult.  They don&#8217;t speak English.  But they have each other and reach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saveellisisland.org\/about-us\/blog\/item\/53-christmas-on-ellis-island.html\">Ellis Island on Christmas Day<\/a>, where they are met with kindness and decency and ultimately welcomed to their new country.  We&#8217;ve been reading this book for years; this year it was especially meaningful.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Author:  Maxinne Rhea Leighton<br>Illustrator:  Dennis Nolan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this story, which was inspired by the author&#8217;s grandmother own journey, a Polish family flees war and hunger around the turn of the last century. They are immigrating to the United States to join the husband\/father who went first. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=2050\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[711,21,713,314,471,712,26,715,134,664],"class_list":["post-2050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books","tag-an-ellis-island-christmas","tag-christmas","tag-dennis-nolan","tag-diverse-books","tag-immigration","tag-maxinne-rhea-leighton","tag-out-of-print","tag-poland","tag-toys","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2050"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2149,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050\/revisions\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}